Reviews: Capon, Paul

The World at Bay —
Paul Capon
Winston Science Fiction, book 26

Paul
Capon’s 1954 standalone The
World at Bay was
the 26th
juvenile science fiction novel published by the
John C. Winston company.

Professor
Elrick has long suspected that Poppea, the third world of the dark
star Nero, is inhabited. The Professor also believes an invasion from
that doomed world is imminent. Alas, aside from his loyal teenaged
assistant Jim Shannon, few believe Elrick. Instead, skeptics insist
that the objects flying in formation from the Nero system toward
Earth are only meteors of some sort.

Once
the objects arrive at Earth, a wave of radio silence begins to spread
along the terminator. Elrick was right, but the price of his
vindication may be humanity’s doom.